This was also mentioned by Kettel on 27 Apr 00:


(JIM) I WORE A TIE TODAY
As recorded by Eddy Arnold on “Cattle Call,” 1963.

[SPOKEN] Jim, I did ev’rything that I could, but your fever just wouldn’t die down,
So I tied your horse to the wagon bed and last night I brought you to town.
But when I got there, you were gone, Jim, and there was nothin’ nobody could do.
I bought you a suit an’ a tie, Jim, and today I wore one too.

[SUNG] Jim, I wore a tie today, the first one that I ever wore,
And you’d have said I looked like a dummy out of a dry-goods store.
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Jim, they said a lot o’ things but I don’t know a thing they said
My mind kept wand’ring off down the trail back to the times that we’ve had.

Riding herd through the sun and the rain, panning for gold on the cuff
We’ve done ev’rything in the book, I guess, and a lot they never thought up

Well, Jim, you’re ridin’ on ahead I guess that’s how it has to be
But when you reach those streets paved with gold, Jim, stake a claim out for me

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Also recorded by:
Jimmy Dean, on “Jimmy Dean is Here!” 1967.
Johnny Cash, on “Bootleg Vol. 1: Personal File,” 2006.
The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson), on “Highwayman,” 1985.